Vladimir Archipenko

Vladimir Viktorovich Archipenko (13 June 1908-5 February 1945) was a Soviet Red Army officer during World War II.

Biography
Vladimir Viktorovich Archipenko was born on 13 June 1908 in Rovne, Russian Empire (Rivne, Ukraine). Archipenko would join the Red Army in 1926 and rise to the rank of Sergeant by 1945, leading a squad of assault troops during World War II. In 1945, his squad pushed into Poland and took part in the offensive on the German fortress of Posen (Poznan), and he was gunned down by a tank's machine gun during the heavy fighting for the city center.